JORDY KERWICK

b. 1982

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Jordy Kerwick (b. 1982) is an Australian artist who has captured the attention of art dealers, collectors & curators across the world. In the last 2 years, Jordy Kerwick has exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Connecticut, London, Paris, Copenhagen, Cologne, Hamburg, Brisbane and his hometown of Melbourne.

Kerwick attributes part of his success to the power of Instagram, where he has a substantial following – and it’s growing daily. It’s there that he’s connected and made friends with other artists which has fuelled his love of painting with the exchange of images and ideas.

But just a glance at his work is enough to see why he is in such hot demand. Kerwick’s dense impasto brushstrokes flatten the perception of space; instead it is his thick application of paint that offers dimension and texture. He explores the relationship between thick patches of color and form while incorporating recurring elements of iconography such as contours of palm trees and anchors as a means of fusing painting and sketching. These intuitive and enticingly tactile marks celebrate artists’ role of investigating the inherent potential of his chosen media of oil paint. Having only painted for just over two years Kerwick displays a natural talent that belies his relatively young art career.

Jordy Kerwick’s studio, Melbourne VIC , image courtesy Ruby Castagnet

Raw. Worn. Beaten, but loved. Life, stripped bare. Amid the chaos of family life lies a feeling of safety and comfort that I try to replicate in my work. Drawing on my collection of imagery of cultural markings and people, places and things, I like to explore beauty in its most organic and real state; stripping back the layers to reveal a subject in its most truthful state. – Jordy Kerwick

Jordy Kerwick will feature in the upcoming group exhibition The Radical Familiar, opening Wednesday 16 May and continuing until Saturday 26 May 2018. We look forward to exhibiting a solo exhibition of Kerwick’s abstract works in the latter half of 2018.